Marine Pilot Missing After Jet Crashes Associated Press June 28, 2004 NORFOLK, Va. - The Navy searched Sunday for a missing Marine Corps pilot whose F/A-18 Hornet aircraft went down in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Capt. Franklin R. Hooks II, 32, of Pasco, Fla., was conducting a training exercise off the Norfolk-based USS Harry Truman when his plane was reported missing Saturday night, Navy officials said. Plane wreckage was recovered about 60 miles south of the Azores Islands, a Navy statement said. The aircraft is part of the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115, based in Beaufort, S.C. Authorities were investigating.